Given that a bicycle can be referred to as a bike and a tricycle can be called a trike, is a unicycle a “unike”?
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naturally
A perfect drag’n’drop question for AI, here is my selected best of:
Onie (pronounced “oh-nee”)
Derived from "one," emphasizing the single wheel.
Unik (pronounced "you-nick")
A modern, edgy take combining "uni" and a hard "k" sound like "bike" or "trike."
"Check out that cool unik trick!"
The problem is that uni is already the shortest and well known form. I doubt anything else can replace that.
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In french it‘s mono (from monocycle). In german it‘s Einrad (from Einrad). Yeah, there‘s no short version in german, which sucks. Same in swiss german. Well, sometimes I refer to it as the redli, which is a (typical swiss) diminutive of rad/wheel. Maybe german speaking people do this too, sometimes, but the german Rad is already used as a short version of Fahrrad (b!cycle), so it would only make sense to call a uni like this when talking with other unicyclists.
In swiss german, the correct term (depending on the dialect, of course) is eirad, which means onewheel. but ei also means egg …which is also an expression for testicle. Last year I was on a muni ride when a guy suddenly needed a short brake. Contorted with pain he stated: „Sometimes, this is the exact reason why it‘s called an eirad (eggwheel)!“
Can‘t disagree with that 
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The Lunicycle has an oval wheel. That is what I’d call a real ei-rad / egg-wheel.
The Lunicycle is a zwätschgoid at best 
, but far from an eirad. Zwätschge = prune
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since I started my wife has called this machine a “yopyop” (image for the movement of the cranks). BTW it could be a language independent international nickname
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Uni is good but now like with bikes if electric
Needs E before.
E bike French Evtt for Emtb
E uni is euc
E scooter
E foil
E tc…
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Fun fact:
However, I think the use of “mono” in this very old song is not writing it truly as a diminutive, but more like an incomplete word for artistic ends, typical of songs.
I’d like te be wrong on this 
uhm you mean: E ct… should be E tc…
E verything
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It’s a yike.
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We should have actual E unis, not those fakers. It should be exactly like a normal uni, but with a battery and freewheel hub. We could pedal as normal, but then turn on battery and keep going! I wouldn’t really want it, but there are all these E _____, so why not a real uni like that?
I wouldn’t want an E Manius though that automatically grabs my medal
So I teach the world why neu (german)= new (english)
A one wheel is a
Non Electric Wheel = new
or in german:
Non Electric Uni = neu (german)= new (english)
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@Wheelou, I should take some lessons in german from you 
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It is simply an ike.
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zwätschge = Zwetsch(g)e
add -oid (as e.g. in Rhomboid) to indicate that the term describes a geometrical shape, and you’re done. What I like most is the fact that referring to a prune suggests that the shape isn’t perfectly geometrical (in that sense, it’s not an adequate designation of the Lunicycle, but I deliberately tried to insult the Lunicycle a bit - after all it doesn’t even have a saddle 
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German seems to be the uni language and second language of this forum. It is German right? I am not sure.
there is no “seat” in the word “unicycle” …uniseatle (or unisaddle). ‘Today I rode my unisaddle’ does have a ring to it. Even a bike has one seat, but that is not the point 
Still the wheel is more egg-like than prune-like of the lunicycle. Or maybe more water melon like. Those aren’t really round either. Von Einrad nach Ein-Melon.
PS: I’m not rambling
Yes
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